Four cabaret songs / William Bolcom ; [texts by] Arnold Weinstein (13:00) -- Poor Peter / Gordon Getty ; poems by the composer (10:00) -- Four songs. My true love hath my heart / poem by Sir Philip Sydney (3:29) ; Barb'ry Allen (3:22) ; He's gone away (3:00) ; The leather-winged bat (2:18) / Jake Heggie -- Annettes-Lieder / David Garner ; poems by Annette von Droste-Hülshoff (15:00) -- Two cabaret songs. Dodecaphonia (4:22) ; Marvelous invention (5:00) / John Corigliano ; poems by Mark Adamo -- Odas de todo el mundo / Luna Pearl Woolf ; poem by Pablo Neruda (10:14).
Note
The 1st Heggie song originally for voice, violoncello, and piano; arr. by the composer for soprano, mezzo-soprano, violoncello, and piano.
Event (note)
Recorded at Skywalker Sound, San Rafael, Calif.
Language (note)
Sung in English, German, and Spanish.
Source of description (note)
Description based on hard copy version record.
Author
Delan, Lisa. voc
Title
And if the song be worth a smile [electronic resource] : songs by American composers.
Imprint
[Netherlands] : PentaTone Classics, p2009.
Playing time
010845
Performer
Lisa Delan, soprano ; Susanne Mentzer, mezzo-soprano (in the 1st Heggie song) ; Matt Haimovitz, violoncello (in the 1st Heggie song and the Garner and Woolf songs) ; Kristin Pankonin, piano.